Grammarly: Writing App 4+

So far, give and take on usefulness

Technically, it seems to work well enough, but it does not get along well with Open Office. That might be a Java issue? Devs should look into that.

I rated it a 3 because of the crash-lockup issue with Open Office. Otherwise, I would have rated it a 4.

As for grammar and such, it does well, but Grammarly has a style that it wants to enforce all the time everywhere. It does not seem to be able to discern quick notes from lengthier writings.

In particular, it is somewhat helpful in legal writing, but it has an issue with articles (it wants articles all the time, in every situation). All in all, it is helpful, but not astounding.

It does help with pointing out words that don't need to be there. I will keep using it, but, unfortunately, I've not seen enough "wow" to entice me to pay for it.

I should qualify all of the above with this caveat: Grammarly says I write better than 97% of whoever it is comparing me to, so it may not be doing as much for me as it could for another writer.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for sharing your experience with us! Unfortunately, Grammarly doesn't support integration with OpenOffice at this time, but thank you for letting us know that it’s something you’d like to see. We’ve forwarded your request to our product team so that they can take it into account when making development plans. As for the grammar issues that you mentioned, could you please send us a screenshot of an example via https://gram.ly/3j7Ylsq? We're happy to look into these!

The new feedback window is terrible

The new feedback window is terrible. I don't know who thinks of this, but extremely annoying. It is never helping, extremely slow, you don't know what's wrong with your text, it's just terrible. The previous version was to give a very fast response and was much more helpful. I could see my spelling and grammar mistakes (wordy sentences, passive voice misuse, etc.) much better. Now I have to open the app to see them. It causes a huge waste of time. I hope you will give up this stupid idea as soon as possible. In addition, why Grammarly does not find the Capitalization mistakes?

Edit: We know which letter to click we are not new to this app. We are aware that your goal is to sell the premium subscription. That's why you have removed the features we use from the extension. We are not stupid and do not try to make us fools. I found a better solution. Deleting my Grammarly account and going back to LanguageTool. At least when I type lP (it warns me that it should be LP.)

Developer Response ,

Thanks for leaving us this review, and we're sorry to hear that you are not happy with Grammarly for Safari. Please feel free to contact our support team directly via https://gram.ly/3j7Ylsq with some examples of how we can improve. We're here to listen! Also, our developers have confirmed that the issue you reported is expected behavior. At this time, some advanced alerts, including suggestions to capitalize the first word in a sentence, appear only if you open the sidebar by clicking the G button in the lower right corner of your text field.

Improves my novel writing

Really love this app and its integration within all the software that I use. I dont know how well the engagement and clarity guages make a difference buts its a fun visual aid to see how well you project is going. But I do love its ability to make everything much more clear and accurate. Although it does need some help when it comes to recognizing common phrases we use in our everyday languages. But all in all this app is a mist have for ANYTHING you do that has written words involved with it. Although I do wonder just how much better the premium features are. But do not feel like you need the premium feature to get an excellent value out the free app.